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BRITAIN’S universities are “a product of colonialism” and action is still needed to challenge “racist structures” in institutions, students have warned.
In a plan setting out their priorities for the future, the National Union of Students (NUS) says that some parts of higher education “have propagated systems that assure white privilege” and that the system must be “decolonised.”
Universities have recognised there is a need to dismantle these systems, the union said, but more needs to be done to create a “truly liberated education.”
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